Formatting a UITextField for credit card input like (xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx)

Question

I want to format a UITextField for entering a credit card number into such that it only allows digits to be entered and automatically inserts spaces so that the

Answer 1

You can probably optimize my code or there might be an easier way but this code should work:

-(BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string {

    __block NSString *text = [textField text];

    NSCharacterSet *characterSet = [NSCharacterSet characterSetWithCharactersInString:@"0123456789\b"];
    string = [string stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@" " withString:@""];
    if ([string rangeOfCharacterFromSet:[characterSet invertedSet]].location != NSNotFound) {
        return NO;
    }

    text = [text stringByReplacingCharactersInRange:range withString:string];
    text = [text stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@" " withString:@""];

    NSString *newString = @"";
    while (text.length > 0) {
        NSString *subString = [text substringToIndex:MIN(text.length, 4)];
        newString = [newString stringByAppendingString:subString];
        if (subString.length == 4) {
            newString = [newString stringByAppendingString:@" "];
        }
        text = [text substringFromIndex:MIN(text.length, 4)];
    }

    newString = [newString stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[characterSet invertedSet]];

    if (newString.length >= 20) {
        return NO;
    }

    [textField setText:newString];

    return NO;
}